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...started calling once a week, sometimes twice a week, and we'd talk about my weekend. And then I would tell funny stories about my weekend or what he thought were funny stories and I thought were normal. And he started asking if I had pictures from my weekend and so I showed pictures. It kind of gradually became different things at different times." - Discussing in an interview how she became an on-air personality on the show (Fort Worth Star Telegram, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephanie Birkitt: Letterman's Lover? | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...Popularity - Not! Re your glowing report on "popular" Republican Senator Charles Grassley and his efforts in the health-care debate [Sept. 14]: I'd like to tell the rest of the story. When Grassley talked about "pulling the plug on Grandma," he also pulled the plug on much of his support. The backlash has been tremendous, as evidenced partly by the many recent articles and letters in the Des Moines Register. Lifelong Republicans have vowed never to vote for him again. Iowa ranks third in the nation in percentage of people over 85 and, no doubt, in Medicare recipients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...financial terms the trade would leave neither country better off. But it would allow China, which is fast coming to terms with the fact that it has to do something about its pollution and emission levels, to truthfully tell its domestic audience that it is cutting them but that the U.S. is compensating it to do so. It would allow the U.S. to argue, also truthfully, that the cost of paying China to cut its emissions is minimal. This solution allows both sides to get what they want while ensuring cuts. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Trading Between the U.S. and China | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

There's no director's cut that I need to have. Critics quite legitimately point out which battles we didn't cover and which generals we didn't talk about. But we cannot be the telephone book. We have to find some way to tell a complex story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ken Burns | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...development groups for the seeds he sold. These days, however, he doesn't have a job and he spends his afternoons at a bar near Kibwezi. Still, he hasn't given up on the plant. "I have a very big passion for jatropha," Kisavi said. "I visit farmers and tell them to plant it in the hope that one day ... somebody will come to the farms and sign contracts for the seed. We know one day that jatropha will be in very high demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Biofuel 'Miracle' Ruined Kenyan Farmers | 10/4/2009 | See Source »

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